Set theory and its applications. L. Babinkostova, A. E. Caicedo, S. Geschke, M. Scheepers, eds. Contemporary Mathematics, vol. 533, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2011. ISBN-10: 0-8218-4812-7 ISBN-13: 978-0-8218-4812-8
Here is a link to the AMS page for it, a link to its table of contents, and the preface:
The Boise Extravaganza in Set Theory (BEST) started in 1992 as a small, locally funded conference dedicated to Set Theory and its Applications. A number of years after its inception BEST started being funded by the National Science Foundation. Without this funding it would not have been possible to maintain the conference. The conference remained relatively small with many opportunities for its participants to meet informally. We like to think that during these years BEST has made it possible for the numerous set theorists who have participated in it to absorb, besides the new developments featured in the conference talks, also part of the folklore and traditions of the field of set theory and its relatives. An explicit effort was made to bring together role models from various career stages in set theory as well as the new generation to support some notion of continuity in the field.
This volume has a similar purpose. In it the reader will find valuable papers ranging from surveys that put in print here set theoretic knowledge that has been around for several decades as unpublished lore, to hybrid survey-research papers, to pure research papers. Readers can be assured of the authority of each paper since each has been carefully refereed. The reader will also find that the subjects treated in these papers range over several of the historically strongly represented areas of set theory and its relatives. Rather than expounding the virtues of each paper individually here, we invite the reader to learn from the authors.
Bringing to publication such a collection of papers is not possible without the generous dedication of authors and referees and the services of a publisher. We would like to thank all authors and referees for their selfless contributions to this volume. And we particularly would like to thank the publisher, Contemporary Mathematics, and Christine Thivierge, for the guidance they provided during this process.
Nice sharing.
Many k-12 and undergraduate students think that Set theory is a basic thing made for children and has no application in advanced mathematics.
But in fact the set theory is the basis of the whole of mathematics.
Are the BEST conferences still going on?
Hi Aaron. I expect so. We skipped a year.